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Emmys: Did Your Favorites Make the Cut?

It was great to see The Good Wife, Modern Family and Glee get so much Emmys love, but let's face it, we kind of expected it. On the other hand, there were some genuine surprises in the mix — and, as always, some disappointing omissions. Read our take on the nominations, and then post your favorite surprise or most painful snub in the comments section.

NICE SURPRISES

Friday Night Lights: TV critics everywhere (and more than a handful of viewers, it must be said) just exhaled. Both Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton, for whom Emmy-snubs stories like this one were invented, finally received lead-acting nominations for Friday Night Lights. Go Panthers, er, Lions!

The thespians of Glee: Gleehad to be nominated for best comedy series. There's simply no other show on the air as consistently original, entertaining, and yes, funny. Nevertheless, it's still a pleasant surprise that three of the cast's ludicrously talented multihyphenates — Matthew Morrison, Lea Michele and Chris Colfer — are all among this year's acting nominees. (Jane Lynch, on the other hand, was a lock. And that's how we ... C it.)

True Blood: The academy snubbed HBO's Southern Gothic vampire fable last year almost entirely, so seeing it show up alongside Breaking Bad, Dexter, The Good Wife, Lost and Mad Men in the best drama series category was definitely not expected.

Matthew Fox: After six seasons on Lost (not to mention six on Party of Five), the artist formerly known as the savior of Funhouse Island received his first Emmy nomination. Even before his tear-jerking death in the series finale, Fox's understated performance was the glue of the ensemble.

Cougar Town: Courteney Cox is the only Friend never to have been nominated for an Emmy. We thought that maybe Bill Lawrence's tight-knit ABC sitcom might be Cox's good-luck charm. But no, neither the show nor any of its talented comedians made the cut.

Or ask Entourage's Jeremy Piven, who saw a four-year nomination streak (and a three-year winning streak), stop dead in its tracks in 2009 after Sushi-gate. The show didn't receive a single major nomination this year either.